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jlynch | October 12, 2007But first, your DonorsChoose update.
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jlynch | October 10, 2007Events
1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
Births
1758 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer
1884 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1705 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker
1811 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist
1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist
1940 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist
1989 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist
jlynch | October 10, 2007Births
1731 - Henry Cavendish, British scientist
1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician
1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer
1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist
1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist
1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist
2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist
jlynch | October 8, 2007
Events
1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
Births
1704 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician
1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer
1879 - Max von Laue, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Peter Mansfield, British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1562 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist
1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer
1943 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize…
jlynch | October 7, 2007Births
1850 - Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist
1883 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1917 - Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1647 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer